On Monday night, an auditorium of movie lovers at the New York Film Festival were treated to the secret world premiere of Josh Safdie ’s Marty Supreme . Loosely based on the life of ping-pong great Marty Reisman, the film stars Timothée Chalamet as the fictional Marty Mauser, a table tennis wiz coming up in 1950s New York City with the hyper-determination to become a world champion. The post-premiere reactions were nothing short of laudatory . Words like “epic” and “masterful” were thrown around, and Chalamet’s performance earned immediate Oscar buzz and praise such as “career best” and “performance of a lifetime.”

To those that got to see Marty Supreme this week — I don’t care that something good happened to you, it should have happened to me instead (as the saying goes). The

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